Flanners Beach Campground

Nice and quiet forest setting. Couple of negatives are that the beach was closed and shower water pressure is poor.

For all: We stayed at site 09. This is a great place! We enjoyed our stay and will definitely stay here again. No issues with the site, the amenities, the hosts, or the gates ;)

Clean, roomy, quiet, and beautiful.

It was a decent campground. However, only one bathroom was open and the beach access was still closed. In summer, the closest good swimming option was Atlantic Beach. We considered New Bern's public pool/ splashpad too.
New Bern has nice restaurants, playgrounds, and a few fun shops. Poppy's Bites and Barrels and Morgan's Tavern are recommended.
One set of camp hosts were friendly and helpful. Campsites (and tent pads) were gravel with some large rocks.

Once beach access is restored, it will be a nice but small campground.

Nice campground. Very quiet and peaceful. Convenient to many places. Would definitely stay here again.

will be back!!!

Chose Flanners based on being invited to co-camp with another couple. We love the New Bern area and thought a new type of camping, that we had not experienced yet would be an adventure. The bath houses and the camping sites were good. The only issue was that the dump site for the black water tank was not functional( I assume due to heavy rain).

Peaceful clean campground. Lots of cardinals and hummingbirds. Surrounded by lots of nature. Bathrooms/ shower was good. Nice trails for hiking. Campsites are good size with many having good privacy.
Only downfall was other bathroom and beach access still closed due to hurricane Florence years ago.

We were very pleased with our stay at Flanners, we have stayed there numerous times; although we do have some comments and suggestions. Why is there a manual gate that each camper has to manually open/close to enter/exit, even in rain/severe weather? It is completely unnecessary and more of a nuisance to your campers. If safety is your reason, a manual gate isn’t the answer. The website is a complete mess and extremely frustrating to navigate. There have been countless times we’ve wanted to stay but we’re unable to book, because we cannot ride in our motor home over 2 hours to find that we can’t get in. We have rode down in our car after that and saw the campground almost empty?!? It shows that numerous sites are first come first serve, but they’re not? Only one site when you’re physically there is for a FF? There are campers that are there and have been there for an extended period of time, unoccupied on a site (10) that shows FF indefinitely? (Even though your rules say that you cannot leave your campsite unoccupied for more than 24 hours.) This is the only NC site we have visited that is this poorly managed; it seems as if the camp hosts are running it themselves. The camping location and experience is nice; the booking and many other things are unorganized and unsatisfactory. Suggestions are that the website needs to be redesigned and managed properly. The manual gate needs to be closed during quiet time only. And the camp hosts time served needs to be limited, not just continued for years and years as your current hosts have been; they’re too complacent in their duties.

Nice location, clean, well maintained, helpful host.